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Michael McCullers doesn't have writer Tina Fey's deft hand. While he does see something significant in the almost entirely sci-fi female-generated pregnancy where men are barely in the picture, his social commentary is only skin deep.

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There are definitely some laughs, but the film feels lazy overall, as if someone decided that having talented comedic actors was enough and if they could just do their own thing with an OK script then a serviceable comedy would somehow just ensue.

Baby madness happily invades the brain of Philadelphia bachelorette and thriving businesswoman Kate Holbrook (gleefully played by Tina Fey) who, at the ripe age of 37, hires a surrogate mom to birth her sperm bank assisted baby.

At its best, this successful, though not overwhelming film adaptation of The Hunger Games lampoons the tawdry neon shades, effusive razzle dazzle, and spectacles of debasement and triumph in contemporary American entertainment.

No matter where you fall on the reproductive continuum -- married, unmarried, childless, or with child -- you'll likely find something to relate to in the egg-meets-sperm romantic comedy Friends with Kids.

As fascinating — and maddening — as it can be watching the arguments that emerge between the fans and detractors of any given filmmaker, it can be almost more fascinating watching fans argue amongst themselves.

For 11 days in Utah's mountains in January, not a flake of precipitation fell on the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. And the cheery blue skies could not possibly have been a better match for the mood of the festival's best films.

Uncomfortable as it may be, McQueen skips the history lesson and achieves a visceral experience that will surely be known as the definitive moral rendering of an era that should only be recalled with remorse and shame.